Pulse Code Modulation Patents (Class 375/242)
  • Patent number: 11928621
    Abstract: A system may determine an initial safety prediction for a driver or rider associated with a shared mobility service. Then the system may receive, from various sensors, sensor data collected during operation of a vehicle. The system may determine a subset of the sensor data related to one or more shared mobility statuses, then determine, based on the subset of the sensor data, a safety score for the driver and/or rider. The system may further perform operations based on the safety score and/or the initial safety prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Rachel Edelshteyn Allen, Neal Edgar Coleman, II, Grady Irey
  • Patent number: 11875667
    Abstract: A fire system for a building is provided, the fire system including a fire panel for monitoring the building and activating an alarm; and a plurality of remote units electrically connected to the fire panel in a circuit having a loop configuration. At least some of the plurality of remote units including an indicating device for modulating a current in the circuit. The plurality of remote units are in communication with the fire panel in a master-slave relationship. The fire panel includes a calibration module for polling each indicating device to obtain a current response value and for storing said current response values, the current response value of an indicating device being based on the amplitude of the current when modulated by that indicating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jordi Escofet Via, Andres Cordoba Galera, Santiago Vilarrubla Canals, Ramon de la Torre
  • Patent number: 11770194
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for a single edge nibble transmission (SENT) multi-transmission mode are described. In an example, a system can include a transmitter and a receiver connected to one another. The transmitter may encode an identifier of a device in a synchronization nibble of a SENT signal. The transmitter may transmit the SENT signal with the encoded identifier to the receiver. The receiver may receive the SENT signal from the transmitter. The receiver may decode the identifier of the device from the synchronization nibble of the SENT signal to identify the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics America Inc.
    Inventor: Steffen Bender
  • Patent number: 11722200
    Abstract: When a TRP performs a TRP beam sweep for a WD with multiple antenna arrangements and the WD is expected to perform an UL transmission (e.g., the WD has at least a threshold amount of data in its transmit buffer) and UL beam selection is based on DL beam selection, in one embodiment the WD takes the available output power of the different antenna arrangements in to account during RSRP calculations for the different candidate TRP TX beams such that the RSRP from an antenna arrangement that has lower available output power is weighted less compared to the RSRP measured from an antenna arrangement that has higher available output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11451329
    Abstract: Methods and systems for performing signal pre-correction of a transmission signal comprising a sequence of symbols using a Pattern Dependent Look-up Table (PDLUT) containing one or more distortion correction values. Upon accessing a distortion correction value from the PDLUT for a symbol of the sequence of symbols, the accessed distortion correction value is quantized into one or more quantized values according to one or more quantizations, thereby reducing the bit-width of the distortion correction value. The transmission signal and the distortion correction value with reduced bit-width may undergo linear correction compensation, such as through a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, independent of one another, where the one or more quantized correction values with reduced bit-width reduce a number of calculation steps performed during linear correction compensation resulting in power savings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhong Ke, Chuandong Li, Xuefeng Tang
  • Patent number: 11398858
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for preparing channel state information (“CSI”). One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver configured to communicate with a base unit over a radio access network using at least one transmission layer and determining a total number of non-zero coefficients over a set of layers. The processor determines an indication of the total number of non-zero coefficients, where determining the indication of the total number of non-zero coefficients comprises encoding the total number of non-zero coefficients by selecting a codeword from a plurality of candidate codewords. The processor prepares CSI, where the CSI comprises the indication of the total number of non-zero coefficients and the transceiver transmits the CSI to the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Udar Mittal, Tyler Brown, Khalid Zeineddine, Jiho Song
  • Patent number: 11375331
    Abstract: The present research relates to controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. The present research provides a method and apparatus for controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals based on spatial cues in a process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. To achieve the purpose, the method suggested in the research controls rendering in a spatial cue domain in the process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung-Kwon Beack, Jeong-Il Seo, Dae-Young Jang, Tae-Jin Lee, Yong-Ju Lee, Jin-Woo Hong, Jin-Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 11233526
    Abstract: A two-dimensional square constraint encoding and decoding method and device, relating to the fields of data storage and data communication. The encoding method includes caching a one-dimensional data stream, and dividing the one-dimensional data stream into several sets of one-dimensional 2-bit data; according to an encoding table, encoding each set of 2-bit data into a 3*2 two-dimensional codeword in sequence by an encoder, and then cascading all the two-dimensional codewords into a two-dimensional constraint array in a specified order; the decoding method includes reading the two-dimensional constraint array by a decoder, and dividing the two-dimensional constraint array into several 3*2 two-dimensional codewords; decoding each two-dimensional codeword into the one-dimensional 2-bit data in sequence through a decoding table, and then successively assembling the generated one-dimensional 2-bit data into the one-dimensional data stream and outputting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN FIBERHOME TECHNICAL SERVICES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jibin Liu, Ming Wei
  • Patent number: 11139970
    Abstract: A computer processing hardware architecture system in a highly secure isogeny based cryptosystem that includes at least one computer processor operably configured to target accelerating operations involved in isogenies on elliptic curves and having a secret key register operably configured to register a secret key, a pseudo-random function, and a secret message buffer, each operably written to by a 2:4 demultiplexer circuit operably configured to receive outside data in regions therein and read by a 4:2 multiplexer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: PQSecure Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Craig Koziel, Brandon Langenberg
  • Patent number: 11120808
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an audio playing method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining a combined third pulse code modulation (PCM) code stream according to a first PCM code stream and a second PCM code stream, where information about the first PCM code stream and information about the second PCM code stream are carried in respective channels of the third PCM code stream; inputting the third PCM code stream to a DAC, and outputting the third PCM code stream to a first speaker and a second speaker through the DAC for playback. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, two audio code streams are combined into one audio code stream, and the information about the two audio code streams are carried in different channels of the combined audio code stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Xi'an Zhongxing New Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Huipeng Zeng
  • Patent number: 11121850
    Abstract: A signal analysis method is described. The signal analysis method comprises: receiving an N-ary input signal, the input signal comprising a symbol sequence; determining at least two threshold transition times of the input signal within a predetermined time period, wherein the input signal respectively crosses an amplitude threshold of several predetermined amplitude thresholds at each of the threshold transition times; determining time intervals between the threshold transition times; evaluating the time intervals based on a set of predefined conditions; and assigning the threshold transition times to at least one symbol transition based on the evaluation. Further, a signal analysis module is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Reinhold, Hela Jedda
  • Patent number: 11025356
    Abstract: Disclosed herein include a system and a method of synchronizing a slave device to a signal from a master device based on pulse width analysis. The pulse width analysis is a process to sample the signal at a sampling frequency of the slave device, determine varying pulse widths of the sampled signal, and determine frequency of an embedded master clock signal of the signal based on statistical analysis of the varying pulse widths. Advantageously, performing pulse width analysis allows synchronization of a slave device with the embedded master clock signal in a time and cost efficient manner. In one aspect, determining a frequency of the embedded master clock signal and adjusting an internal clock of the slave device according to the determined frequency is faster and more cost efficient than iteratively adjusting the internal clock based on feedback loop based circuitries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Fitting, Niel Warren, Geert Knapen
  • Patent number: 10999106
    Abstract: Multi-drop communications channels can have significantly deep notches in their frequency response causing a corresponding limitation of the effective data transmission rate. A special time-ordered coding method is described which results in the emitted spectrum of the data stream transmitted into the channel having a notch at the same frequency as the notch in the channel frequency response, permitting channel receivers to successfully decode the transmitted data stream. The described coding method may be applied at various multiples of the channel notch frequency to support different throughput rates, and may be combined with other coding techniques such as group or vector signaling codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Ali Hormati, Amin Shokrollahi
  • Patent number: 10904313
    Abstract: A method performed by a client for upstreaming to a server a live media feed is provided. The method includes the client establishing a transport layer connection with the server; transmitting to the server a first message having a header and a body; and storing in a transmit buffer media data corresponding to the live media feed as the media data is generated. The header does not indicate the size of the body. A quality setting is used to generate the media data. Transmitting the body includes: 1) transmitting to the server at least a portion of the media data; 2) removing from the transmit buffer said at least a portion of the media data; 3) determining whether the client should modify the quality setting that is used to generate the media data, and 4) repeating steps (1), (2) and (3) until a cease transmission trigger is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Thorsten Lohmar, Ali El Essaili, Mohamed Ibrahim, Raphael Wagner
  • Patent number: 10855356
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for preparing channel state information (“CSI”). One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver configured to communicate with a base unit over a RAN using spatial multiplexing, wherein multiple transmission layers are transmitted at a time, each transmission layer comprising multiple beams. The processor identifies a set of non-zero amplitude parameters and a set of zero amplitude parameters over the set of layers. The processor computes a number of non-zero amplitude parameters and determines an indication of the number of non-zero amplitude parameters. The processor determines the location of zero amplitude parameters to generate a set of location bits. The processor prepares CSI that includes the indication of the number of non-zero amplitude parameters and the set of location bits. The transceiver transmits the CSI to the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Udar Mittal, Tyler Brown, Khalid Zeineddine, Jiho Song
  • Patent number: 10820207
    Abstract: A backward compatible frame reuse mechanism that allows new information to be defined a reused frame without causing any incorrect operation in a legacy receive device. To generate a reused frame, a portion of the frame in the first format is masked with a predetermined masking sequence (PMS) and thereby redefined as new fields in a second format. When a device that supports the reuse scheme receives a frame that possible is a reused frame, the device checks the potentially reused portion according to the first format after de-masking and also checks according to the second format without de-masking. Based on the check results, the device selects a format to resolve the frame. A legacy device receiving the reused frame only checks the reused portion without de-masking, which results in a certain check error and makes the device discard the frame without any harmful operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Jianhan Liu, Tianyu Wu, Rongsheng Huang, James June-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 10771168
    Abstract: Generating of a broadband signal by generating multiple RF signals having a limited frequency range and combining the multiple RF signals. The generation of the individual RF signals is controlled based on a feedback loop measuring the combination of the multiple RF signals and adjusting at least one operational parameter in a device generating RF signals having the limited bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marcus Büche, Jonas Scherer
  • Patent number: 10715778
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video signal transmission device and the like that can support a variety of system specifications. The device includes a packer unit, an encoder unit, and a serializer. The packer unit generates, from a video signal of one or more pixels, a plurality of block signals having a packet configuration of size corresponding to the number of pixels and the number of tone bits of a color signal constituting a video signal. At this time, a control signal including a pulse having a width corresponding to the number of pixels and the number of tone bits is also generated. The encoder unit applies encoding processing having encoding efficiencies that are different between a first period and a second period of a control signal that are distinguished depending on existence or non-existence of a pulse to the block signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Miura, Yoshimichi Murakami, Shuhei Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10652685
    Abstract: The present research relates to controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. The present research provides a method and apparatus for controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals based on spatial cues in a process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. To achieve the purpose, the method suggested in the research controls rendering in a spatial cue domain in the process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung-Kwon Beack, Jeong-Il Seo, Dae-Young Jang, Tae-Jin Lee, Yong-Ju Lee, Jin-Woo Hong, Jin-Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 10615911
    Abstract: This application discloses a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: distributing, by a first distribution circuit, a first bit stream to FEC encoders 1 to N in a round robin fashion, where digital signals 1 to N that are output after being encoded by the FEC encoders 1 to N are in a one-to-one correspondence with a least significant bit to a most significant bit of an input signal of a PAM circuit, a coding gain GX of an FEC encoder X is greater than a coding gain GY of an FEC encoder Y, 1?X<Y?N, N?2, and X, Y, and N are all integers. In the method, different FEC coding gains can be provided for links with different bit error rates, so that a requirement of a high-rate Ethernet for a high gain during long-distance data transmission is met, and physical-layer resources occupied by FEC are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenbin Yang, Xinyuan Wang, Tongtong Wang, Penghao Si
  • Patent number: 10601442
    Abstract: Methods and systems for encoding of integers are discussed. For example, various methods and systems may utilize Huffman coding, Tunstall coding, Arithmetic Coding, LZ77 coding, LZ78 coding, LW coding, or Shannon Fano Elias coding to encode the integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: IDENSIFY LLC
    Inventors: Dan E. Tamir, Peter Jeremy Wilson
  • Patent number: 10602171
    Abstract: A video decoder may perform, based on an operation mode, at least one of a first decoding operation to restore a first bin value based on a first context value, a second decoding operation to restore a second bin value based on an updated first context value or a second context value, a third decoding operation to restore a third bin value based on the updated first context value or a third context value, and a fourth decoding operation to restore at least one bypass bin value without a context value. Based on the operation mode, the video decoder may output the first bin value, the at least one bypass bin value, the first bin value and the at least one bypass bin value, the first bin value and one of the second and third bin values, or at least one of the first, second, and third bin values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Koo Lee
  • Patent number: 10502593
    Abstract: Optical Position Encoders and methods using the same are described. In embodiments, the optical position encoders include a multitrack Hybrid Cyclic Binary Code-2 (HCBC-2) encoded scale and an Optical Readout Assembly (ORA), where the ORA provides absolute position optical readout and automatic physical alignment to the scale. Linear optical position encoders, rotary optical position encoders, and methods of measuring the position of ORA relative to a scale using such encoders are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventors: Philip M. Johnson, David K. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10419663
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an encoding processing unit that stores an encoded stream of an input data that is encoded based on the specified encoding control information; a buffer management unit that calculates the transmission buffer occupancy indicating the amount of data stored in a transmission buffer according to the generated data amount, and the reception buffer occupancy indicating the amount of data stored in a reception buffer, which is the destination of the encoded stream; and a control information specifying unit that, when the transmission buffer occupancy is equal to or less than a first threshold, specifies the encoding control information based on the reception buffer occupancy, and when the transmission buffer occupancy is greater than the first threshold, specifies the encoding control information to further reduce the generated data amount than in the case of equal to or less than the first threshold, to the encoding processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shibayama, Toshiyuki Kaya, Seiji Mochizuki, Ryoji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10397537
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video signal transmission device and the like that can support a variety of system specifications. The device includes a packer unit, an encoder unit, and a serializer. The packer unit generates, from a video signal of one or more pixels, a plurality of block signals having a packet configuration of size corresponding to the number of pixels and the number of tone bits of a color signal constituting a video signal. At this time, a control signal including a pulse having a width corresponding to the number of pixels and the number of tone bits is also generated. The encoder unit applies encoding processing having encoding efficiencies that are different between a first period and a second period of a control signal that are distinguished depending on existence or non-existence of a pulse to the block signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Miura, Yoshimichi Murakami, Shuhei Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10333641
    Abstract: A receiver node for use in a digital broadcast system, comprising a receiver configured to receive a signal containing a service encoded with an error correcting code for decoding and wherein said receiver is further configured to ignore the signal during an ignore period, the node configured to use said error correcting code and the encoded service received outside the ignore period to reconstruct the part of the service ignored by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Martin Kessel
  • Patent number: 10334261
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving a video bitstream with a high fidelity input format and side information related to the video bitstream. The side information includes a video bitstream representing the original video source with a low fidelity input format, coding parameters optimized based on knowledge of the original video source, transform coefficients, indicative of a residual between the original video source and a decoded version of the high fidelity format. The method further includes decoding the side information to generate transcoding guiding information, estimating a representation of video bitstream with a low fidelity output format, based on the received bit stream and the generated transcoding guiding information, improving the estimated low-fidelity representation by adding the transform coefficients of the side information to transform coefficients generated from the estimated low-fidelity representation, and encoding the improved estimated representation of the low-fidelity bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kenneth Andersson, Thomas Rusert, Jonatan Samuelsson, Richard Sjöberg
  • Patent number: 10302698
    Abstract: Disclosed approaches of determining an estimated glitch toggle rate at an output of a logic circuit include inputting functional static probabilities of combinations of states of the plurality of inputs and a generated glitch toggle rate of the logic circuit. Each functional static probability indicates a probability of the states of the inputs of the combination. For each input of the plurality of inputs to the logic circuit, a Boolean Difference Function (BDF) of the input is generated. A maximum glitch rate, which is the estimated glitch toggle rate, is determined based on the generated glitch toggle rate and the functional static probabilities associated with selected combinations of states of the BDF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Fan Zhang, Anup K. Sultania
  • Patent number: 10256946
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for decoding an optical data signal. Said optical data signal is phase and amplitude modulated according to a constellation diagram with at least eight constellation points representing non-binary symbols. Said decoding method comprises the following steps: —carrying out a carrier phase recovery of a received signal ignoring the possible occurrence of phase slips, —decoding said signal after phase recovery, wherein in said decoding, possible cycle slips occurring during phase recovery are modelled as virtual input to an equivalent encoder assumed by the decoding scheme. Further disclosed are a related encoding method as well as a receiver and a transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Xieon Networks S.à.r.l.
    Inventor: Stefano Calabro
  • Patent number: 10186042
    Abstract: An object matching method is applied to a camera system with an object matching function. The object matching method includes detecting a moving object within overlapped monitoring areas of two image capturing units to generate a first coordinate point and a second coordinate point respectively upon a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system, calculating at least one transforming parameter of the first coordinate system relative to the second coordinate system, acquiring a reliability level according to a comparison result between the transforming parameter and a threshold, determining a final transform parameter by the reliability level, utilizing the final transform parameter to transform the first coordinate point into a third coordinate point upon the second coordinate system, and determining whether the first coordinate point and the second coordinate point indicate the same object by difference between the third coordinate point and the second coordinate point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: VIVOTEK INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Chieh Liu, Wei-Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 10164732
    Abstract: An encoding circuit for selecting a transmit data symbol for transmission over a data bus may include an alternate symbol generation circuit configured to generate an alternate data symbol based on an encoded data symbol scheduled for transmission over the data bus and a decision circuit configured to select the encoded data symbol or the alternate data symbol as the transmit symbol based on a plurality of phasors. The decision circuit may include a plurality of phasor generation circuits configured to generate the plurality of phasors based on the encoded data symbol and a plurality of target frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Christoph Schultz, William Dawson Kesling, Eytan Mann
  • Patent number: 10091662
    Abstract: An example method may include a processing system of a device having a processor capturing, at a first position comprising a first location and a first spatial orientation of the device, a first measurement of a performance indicator based upon at least a first wireless signal from a base station of a beamformed wireless communication network and capturing, at a second position comprising a second location and a second spatial orientation of the device, a second measurement of the performance indicator based upon at least a second wireless signal from the base station of the beamformed wireless communication network. The method may include the processing system selecting a position for a deployment of the device based upon the first measurement of the performance indicator and the second measurement of the performance indicator and providing at least one instruction for the deployment of the device at the position that is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Saeed Ghassemzadeh, Aditya Chopra, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10020821
    Abstract: A transmission device and reception device for digital data that have excellent resistance to noise are provided. An encoder (11-1) of this disclosure, included in a transmission device (1) of this disclosure, applies LDPC encoding to digital data using a unique check matrix for each code rate by using a check matrix in which, taking a check matrix initial value table established in advance for each code rate at a code length of 44880 bits as initial values, 1 entries of a partial matrix corresponding to an information length appropriate for a code rate of 93/120 are allocated in the column direction over a cycle of 374 columns. A demodulator (23) of this disclosure, included in a reception device (2) of this disclosure, decodes digital data encoded by the encoder (11-1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Youichi Suzuki, Akinori Hashimoto, Shoji Tanaka, Kenichi Tsuchida, Takeshi Kimura, Yoshifumi Matsusaki
  • Patent number: 9979332
    Abstract: A chiller system includes a compressor configured to circulate a refrigerant between an evaporator and a condenser in a closed refrigerant loop and a synchronous motor configured to drive the compressor. The motor includes a stator winding and a rotor. The chiller system includes a controller configured to estimate a flux linkage of the rotor and generate a control signal for the motor based on the estimated flux linkage. Estimating the flux linkage includes applying a voltage of the stator winding to a transfer function having an error correction variable, using a first value of the error correction variable in the transfer function to obtain convergence of the flux linkage over an initial motor starting interval, and using a second value of the error correction variable after the initial motor starting interval to reduce an error in estimating the flux linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Zhiqiao Wu, Ivan Jadric
  • Patent number: 9948928
    Abstract: A method for processing an image, the method comprising retrieving an image, encoding the image as a string of components, deriving an exponent for each component, deriving mantissas wherein at least an approximation of each component can be derived from the exponents and mantissas, and wherein each exponent indicates the number of bits in its accompanying mantissa, compressing at least the exponents, and storing the exponents and the mantissas in a memory. There is also provided a apparatus for processing an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shlomo Beer-Gingold, Ofer Naaman, Michael Zarubinsky
  • Patent number: 9900201
    Abstract: A time de-interleaving circuit and a time de-interleaving method perform a time de-interleaving process through writing and reading a plurality of sets of time interleaved data into and from a first memory and a second memory. The time de-interleaving method includes: selecting a set of first time interleaved data and a set of second time interleaved data from the plurality of sets of time interleaved data, the set of first time interleaved data and the set of second time interleaved data having the same delay length; writing the set of first time interleaved data into the first memory; and writing the set of second time interleaved data into the second memory. The first memory utilizes a bit length as an access unit, and the second memory has an access unit smaller than the bit width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: Chun-Chieh Wang
  • Patent number: 9900146
    Abstract: An encrypted text matching system includes: an auxiliary data generating unit that generates first and second auxiliary data, which are for verification of matching between a first encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting input data and is registered with a storage device and a second encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting input data to be matched, the verification being performed by using a Hamming distance between plaintexts; and a matching determining unit that performs one-way conversion on at least part of the second auxiliary data, performs one-way conversion on intermediate data that is generated based on a difference between the first encrypted text and the second encrypted text and on the first auxiliary data, and determines whether a Hamming distance between plaintexts is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the Hamming distance corresponding to the difference between the first and second encrypted text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Isshiki, Kengo Mori, Toshinori Araki
  • Patent number: 9787566
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for probing a communication channel. These systems and methods transmit an error vector probe packet from a first transmitter while a second transmitter is active and transmitting. A network device may receive the error vector probe packet and measure an error vector magnitude based on the received error vector probe packet. Using the error vector magnitude, the network device estimates channel characteristics such as signal-to-noise ratio, data capacity, etc. The transmission can occur when more than one transmitter is active and transmitting. At least some of the other transmitters are active and transmit an analog zero signal, e.g., all digital zeros on the input to the digital-to-analog converter of a network device when an error vector probe packet is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Entropic Communications LLC
    Inventor: Arndt Mueller
  • Patent number: 9769473
    Abstract: Video coders may perform perspective transformation of reference frames during coding in a manner that conserves processing resources. When a new input frame is available for coding, a camera position for the input frame may be estimated. A video coder may search for reference pictures having similar camera positions as the position of the input frame and, for each reference picture identified, the video coder may perform a prediction search to identify a reference picture that is the best prediction match for the input frame. Once the video coder identifies a reference picture to serve as a prediction source for the input frame, the video coder may derive a transform to match the reference frame data to the input frame data and may transform the reference picture accordingly. The video coder may code the input frame using the transformed reference picture as a prediction reference and may transmit coded frame data and the camera position of the input frame to a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yao-Chung Lin, Xiaosong Zhou, Hsi-Jung Wu, Douglas Scott Price, Chris Y. Chung, Dazhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9548063
    Abstract: Embodiments of method and apparatus for acoustic echo control are described. According to the method, an echo energy-based doubletalk detection is performed to determine whether there is a doubletalk in a microphone signal with reference to a loudspeaker signal. A spectral similarity between spectra of the microphone signal and the loudspeaker signal is calculated. It is determined that there is no doubletalk in the microphone signal if the spectral similarity is higher than a threshold level. Adaption of an adaptive filter for applying acoustic echo cancellation or acoustic echo suppression on the microphone signal is enabled if it is determined that there is no doubletalk in the microphone signal through the echo energy-based doubletalk detection, or there is no doubletalk through the spectral similarity-based doubletalk detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Shi, JiaQuan Huo, Xuejing Sun, Glenn N. Dickins
  • Patent number: 9454426
    Abstract: Embodiments include generating an error correction code by identifying two error-correcting codes of length n with minimum distances d and 2d, such that the second code is contained into the first code. Data is then encoded into t?1 blocks using the first code, and into the t-th block using the second block. The first t?1 encoded blocks are stored into t?1 blocks of memory locations, while the exclusive-OR (XOR) of such t?1 encoded blocks and the t-th encoded block is stored into a t-th block of memory location. The final encoded vector of length to is identified as belonging in a code with minimum distance 2d. Rotations of an encoded vector jn times are identified as belonging to the same equivalence class. A received vector or its rotations jn times can be successfully identified in the presence of up to d?1 errors, while d errors are identified as uncorrectable errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John S. Best, Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler
  • Patent number: 9385903
    Abstract: This invention proposes an alternative modulation format for channels that present improved performance when such channels co-propagate with existing intensity modulated channels. This modulation format is named Rhombic-QPSK (R-QPSK) and it is designed in such a way that it presents more tolerance to phase noise created by the nonlinear interaction with the legacy channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Eduardo Mateo Rodriquez, Fatih Yaman, Shaoliang Zhang, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 9251801
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method for rendering a music signal compatible with a discontinuous transmission codec includes detecting a period of silence within an initial music signal, producing an auxiliary audio signal whose amplitude is less than that of the initial signal outside of the period of silence, but sufficient to not be detectable as silence by a discontinuous transmission codec, and replacing the initial music signal with the auxiliary signal during the period of silence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Grand
  • Patent number: 9143220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital retro-directive system and method thereof for receiving incoming signals from a transmitting source by means of at least two antennas and transmitting outgoing signals back, substantially, simultaneously, towards said transmitting source through said at least two antennas irrespective of the location of one antenna with respect to another and without calculating phase differences between said outgoing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Moshe Fireaizen, Ofer Shariv
  • Patent number: 9143851
    Abstract: A microphone arrangement has an SMD housing with a sound inlet opening. A transducer receives sound waves through the sound inlet opening and converts the received sound waves into electrical signals. An analog-to-digital converter provides digital signals. An interface control unit with a digital interface is used by the chip to transmit data serially to an external device. At least one further interface is connected to a peripheral device such that the at least one further interface can be used to transmit data between the peripheral devices and the interface control unit. The transducer, the analog-to-digital converter, the interface control unit and the at least one further interface are integrated in the SMD housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventor: Armin Schober
  • Patent number: 9065607
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes: an oscillator that outputs a clock signal; a phase comparator that outputs a signal corresponding to a phase difference between an input reception data signal and the clock signal; a divider that outputs a feedback clock signal; a first variable delay circuit that outputs a delay data signal; a second variable delay circuit that outputs a delay feedback clock signal; a frequency phase comparator that outputs a signal corresponding to a frequency difference and a phase difference between the delay data signal and the delay feedback clock signal; a lock detector that outputs a determination signal indicating whether or not the frequency difference and the phase difference are within a predetermined range; and a multiplexer that receives the determination signal and select a signal of the phase comparator and a signal of the frequency phase comparator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Maruko, Yosuke Ueno
  • Patent number: 9036081
    Abstract: A video transmission device 10 has: a packer 11 which receives a video signal, a sync signal, and a data-enable signal, and generates a plurality of packet signals by packetizing the video signal and the sync signal based on the data-enable signal and according to the number of bytes of a packet corresponding to the number of gradation bits of the video signal; an encode unit 15 which generates a plurality of encoded packet signals by encoding the plurality of packet signals; and a serializer 14 which generates a serial packet signal by parallel-serial converting the plurality of encoded packet signals. The packer 11 generates a control signal including a pulse with a pulse width corresponding to the number of bytes of the packet, and the encode unit 15 subjects a portion of the packet signals corresponding to the pulse in the control signal from the packer, to an encode process which is different from a process for the other portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Seiichi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9026434
    Abstract: An audio coding terminal and method is provided. The terminal includes a coding mode setting unit to set an operation mode, from plural operation modes, for input audio coding by a codec configured to code the input audio based on the set operation mode such that when the set operation mode is a high frame erasure rate (FER) mode the codec codes a current frame of the input audio according to a select frame erasure concealment (FEC) mode of one or more FEC modes. Upon the setting of the operation mode to be the High FER mode the one FEC mode is selected, from the one or more FEC modes predetermined for the High FER mode, to control the codec by incorporating of redundancy within a coding of the input audio or as separate redundancy information separate from the coded input audio according to the selected one FEC mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Craig Greer, Hosang Sung
  • Patent number: 8964905
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a low power serial link employing differential return-to-zero signaling. A receiver circuit consistent with some embodiments includes an input circuit for receiving differential serial data signals that form a differential return-to-zero signaling and a clock recovery circuit. The clock recovery circuit is coupled to the input circuit and includes a logic gate configured to generate a clock signal by using said differential serial data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc Loinaz
  • Patent number: 8964818
    Abstract: A short reach communication system includes a plurality of communication SERDES that communicate data over a short reach channel medium such as a backplane connection (e.g., PCB trace) between, for example, chips located on a common PCB. A multi-level modulated data signal is generated to transmit/receive data over the short reach channel medium. Multi-level modulated data signals, such as four-level PAM, reduce the data signal rate therefore reducing insertion loss, power, complexity of the circuits and required chip real estate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Lorenzo Longo, Vivek Telang